NEW DELHI: Climate activist Sonam Wangchuk, who has been on an indefinite fast for over three weeks, continues to remain stable but medically vulnerable, with doctors at VMMC & Safdarjung Hospital on Sunday saying he was being given “oral sugar-free” electrolyte solution while remaining under roundthe-clock observation by a joint team of specialists from Safdarjung…
Activist Sonam Wangchuk will end his hunger strike on July 20. He has set conditions for ending his protest against education system failures (Photo credit: X/@Sonam Wangchuk) NEW DELHI: Activist Sonam Wangchuk said he would end his indefinite hunger strike on July 20 if the Centre takes responsibility for alleged failures in the education system,…
NEW DELHI: Rain lashed several parts of Delhi on Monday, bringing relief from days of hot and humid.The IMD forecast more showers and issued a yellow alert for Tuesday and Wednesday, with heavy rain likely at isolated places on Tuesday.Weather experts had earlier attributed the dry spell to a “break monsoon condition” caused by the…
New Delhi: “Please hurry. I’m standing near Rajghat with a newborn. She can’t be more than two hours old. I don’t know who left her here, but I won’t leave until someone comes.”It was mid-May. The caller’s voice was calm, but every second mattered. Somewhere near Rajghat, a stranger was standing, holding an abandoned infant,…
New Delhi: A 20-year-old salon worker was stabbed to death by a group of four-five people in northwest Delhi’s Jahangirpuri Saturday, despite the efforts of two patrolling cops to rescue him. The policemen were themselves assaulted while trying to save the victim. Four people, including three juveniles, were apprehended and a search was on for…
New Delhi: For 10-year-old Rani (name changed), the beginning of every academic session brought the same hope, that perhaps this would be the year that she finally entered a classroom. But when her mother approached a nearby school for admission, she was allegedly turned away because the child did not have an Aadhaar card.Rani’s family…
New Delhi: The Special Police Unit for Women and Children (SPUWAC) in Delhi buzzes with activity. Every few minutes, a couple is called into a counselling room, a file lands on an inspector’s desk, while another family takes a seat in the waiting area.On a weekday morning, every chair is occupied, women clutch toddlers too…
New Delhi: A day after activist Sonam Wangchuk was shifted to Safdarjung Hospital, the protest at Jantar Mantar swelled Sunday, with people arriving from across the country to join it.The protest entered its 22nd day, while CJP founder Abhijit Dipke’s indefinite hunger strike entered its second day and three AISA activists — Neha, Ameen Amitoj…
New Delhi: Medical ethics revised and endorsed repeatedly since 1993 by the World Medical Association (WMA) emphasizes that it is unethical to forcibly treat those on hunger strike if they have refused treatment.“All kinds of interventions for enteral (feeding through a tube straight into the stomach) or parenteral (intravenous-IV) feeding against the will of the…
New Delhi: Delhi Development Authority (DDA) is set to operationalise a multilevel car parking facility at Bhikaji Cama Place District Centre in the next three months as part of its efforts to address parking shortages in major commercial hubs across the city.The project comes nearly four months after it opened a multilevel parking lot at…
